My Hidden Road

"Iwagakure and Konoha Hidden are at war, and the scale is greater than any previous friction. Perhaps it should be called a war. This is the consequence of your assassination mission, do you know?"

In the dark room, the heavy rain made a fierce sound on the window. Hanzo stood on the couch and said with interest, trying to find something interesting on Naoto's calm face, something similar to an expression of compassion, but there was nothing.

Gained.

"I just completed the task. You gave the order." Naoto responded.

Hanzo's face was indignant and angry. He knew what Naoto meant. The subtext was: Although I am the murderer, I am not the culprit, and I am not the one who issued this order.

"A newcomer has recently appeared in Konoha Hidden Village on the recent battlefield, and Hidden Cloud Village seems to also want to participate in this war. The war is obviously coming, and our country of rain will definitely fall to the battlefield of a great power again."

"so······"

Hanzo narrowed his slender eyes and said, "You are a very sharp and easy-to-use blade. Wasn't your dream once to save this sad and tearful country?"

"Once, and only once." Naoto added.

"Haha, although you came back a little late from this mission, I know you didn't want to come back because you wanted to avoid the limelight. Now I can assure you that this matter will never be leaked.

Naoto-kun, sometimes people can't forget the past."

"Perhaps you should say this to yourself."

"presumptuous!"

Hanzo glared angrily. He dared to speak to himself in such a tone after leaving the village for so long. How audacious. In the past? In the past, Hanzo was the most untouchable. Naoto's sarcasm made Hanzo furious. He pulled out his long knife inserted on the floor and slashed with the back of the knife.

On Naoto's shoulder, a heartbreaking pain quickly came, and Naoto's arm went limp and he fell to the floor due to pain in his shoulder.

Hanzo held a ninja sword and trampled Naoto's head under his feet: "Who allowed you to speak to me like this? Remember you are just a little ant. You can live because of my kindness.

Naoto-kun, you should thank me for my kindness instead of contradicting me here. Look at how the people in this village look at you. Everyone is afraid of you. Don’t even think of escaping from my grasp."

Being stepped on, Naoto gasped for air, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

"I'm sorry, Hanzo-sama, please forgive me for being rude."

"Forgive? Humph!"

"ah--!"

The long knife was pierced into Naoto's shoulder blade by Hanzo. Naoto felt the pain and endured the anger, but he was overjoyed in his heart. Hanzo still didn't kill himself after saying such excessive words, which proved that he was still useful and safe in a short time.

It proves that Hanzo can only use force to maintain his majesty now.

Hanzo pulled out the long knife that penetrated Naoto's body and threw it on the ground, then kicked him hard in the abdomen. Naoto flew backwards and hit the wall. He lay weakly in the corner and lingered for breath.

"You are just a convenient tool. Don't take yourself too seriously. I could deprive you of your ideals and friends back then, and now I can deprive you of your life. You only deserve to live like a dog."

Naoto covered his wound with his hands and his head fell to the ground: "I'm sorry, please forgive me for my mistake."

"Take your sword and get out of here!"

"Yes, Master Hanzo."

Picking up his long sword, Naoto fled Hanzo's base like a bereaved dog. His miserable appearance was seen by many rain ninjas, who all laughed at him.

Dog? Then live like a dog, waiting for the opportunity to turn into a hungry wolf and bite his neck off.

The embarrassed Naoto left in the heavy rain. The ninjas in Amegakure Village all liked to see people fleeing in embarrassment, because it was not often seen that Naoto, who usually seemed aloof, would become like this.

People always like to see people who are worse off than themselves. When they see people who are suffering, some people will be kind-hearted, some people will be secretly happy, and some people want to add insult to injury. But these Yu Ren will not be kind-hearted.

They will only secretly rejoice or add insult to injury. They want to see Naoto suffer even worse.

Now Hanzo can only rely on force to suppress Naoto. This is the last and most stupid method, and Hanzo knows this clearly.

As for why? Naoto wanted to give him a sense of oppression. If he wanted to cause people to perish, then he would go crazy. Knowing that he was about to be unable to suppress Naoto, and that the running dog he raised was about to kill his master, who knew what Hanzo would do to make people crazy?

Unbelievable thing.

After running away in embarrassment, Naoto stood under an eaves to take shelter from the rain. He leaned against the door and touched his clothes that were soaked by the rain. The bleeding had stopped and there should be nothing serious.

"Husband, are you back?"

There were footsteps and a woman's voice behind her, and the door was pushed open. When she saw Naoto, who was soaked all over and with a fierce look in his eyes, the woman unconsciously took a few steps back while holding the baby, her eyes glancing at the long knife in Naoto's hand.

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"Who are you and where is my husband?"

Naoto looked her over a few times and realized that she was Akasaka's wife. Could this baby be Akasaka's son? It was a great thing that the child was born.

"Don't worry, I'm just taking shelter from the rain. If you're worried, madam, you can close the door. Sorry to disturb you, I hope it won't cause any trouble to you."

The woman gently patted the sleeping baby, because she was too afraid to speak slurred words: "No need to disturb, you can do it yourself."

After saying that, he turned around and put the baby in the cradle. He mustered up the courage to walk over and timidly prepared to close the door. When he was about to close the door, there was only a small gap. Naoto stretched out his hand to block it. The frightened woman took out a knife from nowhere.

Scissors, looking at Naoto in horror, tightly guarded the baby's cradle behind him.

Naoto asked calmly: "Is the child a boy or a girl?"

"Ah?" the woman replied in a panic: "It's a boy... No! It's a girl, it's a girl."

"What is your name?"

"Hydrangea."

Naoto glanced at the baby in the cradle from a distance, opened the wooden door and walked into the pouring rain. Naoto suddenly left, which made the woman let out a big sigh of relief. The baby in the cradle cried, and he quickly closed the door and the woman hugged him.

Soothing baby.

Hydrangea, which can bloom even in the cold winter, heralds the coming of spring and is known as the flower of hope. Can this flower really herald the coming of spring?

Naoto, who was walking in the heavy rain, raised his head. A man with one missing ear next to him glanced at him and then hurried past. After a moment, the man turned back and gave Naoto the umbrella in his hand.

"Naoto-sama, it's me! It's raining so hard. You should go back quickly, otherwise you will catch a cold." Akasaka reminded kindly.

To be honest, Naoto looked down on those former subordinates, thinking that they were all a bunch of scum, pests that were parasitic in this country. Akasaka was the first scum among those scum, and Naoto never thought that he would become like this, that he would actually give him an umbrella,

And he showed such a smile.

"Thank you." Naoto choked out two words.

"You're welcome, Naoto-sama. I was taken care of by you when I was working under you."

"I didn't take care of you and cut off your ears."

Akasaka was stunned, smiled and ran towards home. Akasaka is no longer the scumbag who once bore the brunt. He is now a father and husband, and his responsibility requires him to change himself.